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Damn right. Cars are freedom. The Foucault biopolitics crowd will never understand this. I’m glad that the lefts so called “anti authoritarian” accolades are being massively called into question on things like the demand to get us out of our cars.

No! I want my damn air conditioning, my music, and to be away from the smelly masses. Trying to force me to be around others is authoritarian bio power. Car centric society is amazing. Everyone who doesn’t have it desperately wishes they did have it. Singapore people pay 100K+ for a shit car in a place with the best mass transit in the world and virtually zero crime for a reason!

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The day I bought my first car, my personal freedom skyrocketed.

Same when I later moved to a transit-heavy big city (Toronto). I tried to tough it out for years, but buying a car completely transformed my experience of living there.

The creator of the video linked in the article talks about Toronto a lot and its major shortcomings on transit and general urban planning.

A lot of North American cities are bad places to live without a car, even though the population density should make that a reasonable option since there is not room for everyone to drive and park a car.

> I want my

So much of the argument for cars, housing, indedpendence, "freedom", boils down to this simple sentence, "I want my".

Correct. The car industry intentionally socially engineered the US to associate the giant individual and social burden of car ownership with freedom. A great documentary called Century of the Self covers this and other related things ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3RzGoQC4s )

Man, my parents are such fools. Driving me to school, to putt-putt, ice cream. Then, off to work in their car just to make a payment and buy gas and cover my college tuition. The doctoral thesis of my post capitalism art history professor proves they were scammed by their capitalist overlords.

Wow, someone named “der_einzige” arguing for egoism! What a surprise!

most/many people want car, but the question if humanity can afford to give car to everyone: climate and ecology change, fossils which we take from our children and which could be used with more impact.

Owning a car isn't a right

Neither is dictating what others can own

> Car centric society is amazing. Everyone who doesn’t have it desperately wishes they did have it

Yes, this is why a small apartment in Manhattan is so cheap and a large house in the middle of Iowa is so expensive.

That’s a really scary world you’ve imagined!

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